Managing Google Groups headaches

Ned Batchelder ned at nedbatchelder.com
Sat Dec 7 12:04:30 EST 2013


On 12/7/13 11:27 AM, rusi wrote:
> On Saturday, December 7, 2013 3:46:02 PM UTC+5:30, wxjm... at gmail.com wrote:
>> Rusi:
>
>> "unicode as a medium is universal in the same way that
>> ASCII used to be"
>
>> Probably, you do not realize deeply how this sentence
>> is correct. Unicode and ascii are constructed in the
>> same way. It has not even to do with "characters", but
>> with mathematics.
>
> On the contrary, I'd say we have some rather interesting
> 'characters' out here.
>
>> It is on this level the FSR fails. It is mathematically
>> wrong by design!
>
> Now thats an even more interesting statement. Only not sure what it means
> Here are some attempts
>
> It is wrong therefore unmathematical
> It is designed so its wrong
> It is mathematical so its undesigned
>
> Any Ive missed??
>

JMF: Please stop making this claim.  The last 20 times you claimed it 
you didn't convince anyone on this list, and I doubt you have any new 
information.

Rusi: if you are interested in the details, search the archives.

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